Physical anthropology

Physical anthropology

The branch of anthropology that studies the development of the human race in the context of other primate species.

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Rickets disease

Anthropology; Physical anthropology

A disease of the skeletal system in which the bones are softened and often bent as a result of vitamin D deficiency in the diet that hinders the normal development of bones and teeth. Rickets most ...

mammalia

Anthropology; Physical anthropology

A class of warm blooded, usually hairy animals, that feed their young with milk secreted by the mammary glands of females. Mammalia include monotremes, marsupials, primates, cats, dogs, bears, hoofed ...

B.P. date

Anthropology; Physical anthropology

A chronometric date that is measured in years before the present. By convention, scientists have assigned 1950 A. D. In the Gregorian calendar as the present.

Red Deer Cave People

Anthropology; Physical anthropology

The Red Deer Cave people, recently discovered in south west China, may be a new species of human. The Red Deer Cave people have been carbon dated to having lived to the beginning of agriculture and ...

cognitive anthropology

Anthropology; Physical anthropology

Cognitive anthropology is an approach within cultural anthropology in which scholars seek to explain patterns of shared knowledge, cultural innovation, and transmission over time and space using the ...

anthropology of development

Anthropology; Physical anthropology

The anthropology of development is a term applied to a body of anthropological work which views development from a critical perspective.

political economy in anthropology

Anthropology; Physical anthropology

Political Economy in anthropology is the application of the theories and methods of Historical Materialism to the traditional concerns of anthropology, including, but not limited to, non-capitalist ...